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The new globe map should be upside down #28

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Foxune opened this issue Jun 25, 2024 · 0 comments
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The new globe map should be upside down #28

Foxune opened this issue Jun 25, 2024 · 0 comments

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Foxune commented Jun 25, 2024

I understand that the new gold globe lines are on the real clock in such a way that the north pole is at the top, but when you add a map behind them (thus accentuating the meaning of the globe on the clock) we are basically defeating the purpouse of the globe at all. If I gather correctly, the reason the map was before 2018 oriented with south pole at the top is that the position of the sun on the clock would show you in which direction to look for it in the sky (since in Prague the sun is always to the south) and also the eccliptic circle with the stars would accuratelly represent the stars around the Earth in the actual directions they are in, but all of this is defeated when the globe is north-top oriented (I would really like to know why they decided to change this on the real clock). So I would propose, if you could, to add an option to have the globe with gold lines rotated 180°, so the south pole is up, because it preserves the whole point of the astronomical clock imho. Thanks.

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